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My 10 year old tub need serious grout work. It looks like new now thanks to Tom! He removed the old peeling grout and cleaned up as he worked. The kitchen backsplash was also needing work. He worked his magic. It looks fantastic! Highly recommend him.
Project Details
Remove grout and grout tub. And shower seam. Remove grout on kitchen backsplash and regrout.
Area Dunwoody, GA
Cost $250 - $499
Date April 2018
Posted: 4/16/2018 • Link to this review
Reviews: 1
TheY focus on grout and bathroom repairs. Good company. Upstanding owners. Can't talk enough about them!
Posted: 8/17/2016 • Link to this review
Amazing job done by Tom. Excellent results and very professional. He provides good guidance for maintaining the grout.
Project Details
Tom regrouted the shower area for our master bathroom.
Area Atlanta, GA
Posted: 5/24/2016 • Link to this review
Reviews: 20
Tom was doing some work in my neighborhood when I saw an ad on his car and stopped him to see if he'd take a look at the grout in our shower. There was a ton of soap scum from 13 years of wear that had actually stained the grout and it looked awful, and we were getting close to putting our house on the market. He came in and assessed the situation and got to work the next week redoing the grout in the entire shower. He did a phenomenal job on something I didn't think could be fixed. And he saved me thousands of dollars by telling me how to properly clean the shower pan and doors so I wouldn't have to pay someone to install new ones. He also touched up the caulk in another bathroom and the kitchen and everything looks amazing. I can't recommend Tom and Mr. Grout enough! Thanks for a job well done!
Posted: 11/02/2015 • Link to this review
Tom just left our house after re-grouting & caulking the shower in our master bathroom. He arrived when he said he would, finished the job in the time frame he estimated, and did an excellent job! I only wish I would have taken before pictures to show the missing grout and mildew buildup (that I could never get rid of) that he fixed. The shower looks brand new (which I thought was impossible considering it is 25+ years old) and he did a thorough clean up before he left. I would recommend Tom to anyone who has grouting/caulking needs. Happy that I now "have a guy" when it comes to grout.
Posted: 10/15/2015 • Link to this review
Tom regrouted my shower on 8/12/15 and he did an exceptional job. See the before/after pics. I had build up for maybe 10+ years! He gave my shower life! Tom is reasonable priced and has great workmanship.He took his time and followed up with me after he was done.I will highly recommend Tom for the job!
Posted: 8/24/2015 • Link to this review
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I had Tom re-grout a bathroom in my old rental house last year. It was very dirty and several of the tiles were uneven and coming loose. We always did our best to clean in between tenants, but this time it was just too bad to get by with a good cleaning. Tom was very prompt and a really nice guy. I left him in the bathroom and another handyman in another room working on some painting/patch work. It took Tom about 4 hours and he left his bill on the counter. When I came back, I was amazed at how great(clean) it looked and he had actually repaired some of the loose/uneven tiles. My regular handyman saw the bill and commented about how he could have done it for less. I have no doubt a handyman 'could' have done it for less, but the quality of Tom's work is FAR superior to anything that handyman has EVER done for me. It was worth a little extra money to get it done right. Tom is very focused. He does one thing and he does it well. Any grout jobs will definitely go to Tom.
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Tom did a great job re-caulking the line between my kitchen counter tops and back splash and areas that had settled between my bathroom cabinets and tile. He matched the colors well and the areas now look like new. His pricing is good for the work and time spent.
Posted: 3/16/2015 • Link to this review
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Tom did a great job in creating our kitchen backslashes. He followed the given design patiently with the result more than beating our expectations. I would advise anyone who plans to try this themselves to instead make your life easier and just call Tom, Mr. Grout.
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Tom (Mr. Grout) Bass - is a skilled artisan - who has perfected the craft of total cosmetic facelift for aging baths and kitchens. Old ceramic tile grouting and seams. Sink and lavatory caulking. Kitchen backsplash and counter seams. Voila. Like new - all for a few hours work. Fairly priced and very personable.
Posted: 3/02/2015 • Link to this review
Tom did great work re-grouting 2 of our showers. He is quick to respond and come to your house. I would recommend him to anyone!!
Posted: 1/16/2015 • Link to this review
He did a great job making our shower look new again! Very easy to work with and professional. I would highly recommend.
Posted: 12/22/2014 • Link to this review
Tom did a wonderful job with our house. Repaired cracked, missing and worn grout in 4 of our bathrooms and our kitchen, including recaulking three tubs. Very happy with the finished look and would call Tom again if needed.
Posted: 12/05/2014 • Link to this review
The shower in our Master Bedroom was really showing it's age. Mildew, missing caulk, etc. I found Mr. Grout on Kudzu and saw the great reviews. Tom gave us a good estimate and we hired him to do the job. He was very prompt, professional and knowledgeable. The shower looks like new! We are very happy with the work and highly recommend Tom aka Mr. Grout.
Posted: 11/11/2014 • Link to this review
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Hiring Tom Bass (Mr. Grout) to re-grout the shower enclosure and floor in a heavily used bathroom that was showing signs of both wear and age was one of the best home improvement decisions I've made. From the initial estimate to the completed job Mr. Bass was professional, courteous, and a pleasure to work with. He delivered what he promised on time and with minimal disturbance to our household routine. He is not just knowledgeable, meticulous, and thorough; he is a craftsman. The bathroom looked brand new when he finished and there was nothing to clean up. I highly recommend Mr. Bass and plan to hire him again for future home renovation projects. Thank you!
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning (LGBTQ) Latinx people have been major contributors to the United States in everything from the arts, politics, and social justice movements. From the famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo to the famous Latinx activist José Julio Sarria who was the first openly LGBTQ person to run for public office– LGBTQ Latinx figures have made long-lasting contributions and have had a significant influence on U.S. culture. When GSAs celebrate the contributions of Latinx LGBTQ people and advocate for the visibility of these important historical figures, we are showing the beautiful diversity of the LGBTQ movement and are making sure that no one's history is forgotten. By celebrating the history of Latinx LGBTQ people, GSAs can also show how the LGBTQ justice movement is connected to other social justice movements fighting to make a better society.
One way GSA clubs do this is by celebrating Latinx History Month from September 15th to October 15th. Latinx History Month was started to focus on and celebrate the unique history and contributions of Latinx people in the United States. During the month, many schools and student clubs will organize class presentations, assemblies, educational posters and fun events as a way to bring alive the rich history of Latinx people.
If your school doesn't have a Latinx History Month celebration, organize with your GSA to start official events at your school. Work with administration, teachers, staff, student groups, and others to ensure the lives of LGBTQ Latinx historical figures are included in your school's activities.
Here are some helpful ideas of activities you can do at your school during Latinx History Month:
Teach Your School!
Be Creative!
Use Social Media!
Remember that having one month of commemoration of the lives of LGBTQ Latinx people is just the beginning! You can work with your school's history, literature, Spanish and social studies teachers to make sure that they are including the stories, activism and lives of Latinx LGBTQ people in your classes throughout the school year. Contact GSA Network for ideas and help on how to do this in your school!
Have ongoing conversations with your GSA about why it's important to acknowledge and celebrate the contributions of LGBTQ people of color to society and to social justice movements. Talking in your GSA about whose history is remembered and whose isn't is a great way to start building an anti-racist GSA. To get started, see our resource on Creating Inclusive GSAs [4].
Most of all, have fun learning, teaching and celebrating some of our most important LGBTQ leaders and community members in history!
[1] https://gsanetwork.org/files/resources/NuestrasHistorias.pdf
[2] http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=en&tl=es&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gsanetwork.org%2Fnuestroarcoiris
[3] http://www.latinoglbthistory.org/about-the-archive
[4] https://gsanetwork.org/resources/creating-inclusive-gsas/building-anti-racist-gsas
[5] http://conectate.radiobilingue.org/novelas/
[6] http://latinoglbthistory.org
[7] http://www.womanvision.org/de-colores.html
[8] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLtHcbmvjAg
[9] http://online.sfsu.edu/~ktrion/Jotas/
[10] https://gsanetwork.org/get-involved/change-your-school%20
[11] http://www.transadvocacy.org/?p=177
[12] https://srlp.org/about/who-was-sylvia-rivera/
[13] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/the-queen-of-san-francisco/8660/

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Andy Reid was in deep negotiations with the Kansas City Chiefs to become their next coach, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The two sides were working out the details and Reid had canceled plans to interview for other openings, according to the person who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the negotiations.
The Philadelphia Eagles fired Reid on Monday, the same day the Chiefs parted ways with coach Romeo Crennel.
The Chiefs have a connection with Reid through team president Mark Donovan, who spent six years as the Eagles' senior vice president of business operations before joining Kansas City. Several members of the Chiefs met with Reid, who has also been linked to openings in Arizona and San Diego, for close to nine hours on Wednesday.
Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt began his search for Crennel's replacement in Atlanta, where he interviewed offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter on Tuesday. One day later, Falcons coach Mike Smith said that Koetter had signed a new contract and would not be pursuing a head coaching job.
Hunt told the AP this week that he would lead the search for the Chiefs' next coach, not embattled general manager Scott Pioli. Hunt said he had "the appropriate resources available to help me in the process," but would not say who is assisting him. It's unclear whether Pioli would be retained if Reid becomes the Chiefs' coach.
Hunt's decision to spearhead the coaching search coincides with his decision to take greater control of football operations. Pioli had been responsible for all personnel moves since he was hired in 2009, including the hiring and firing of the head coach.
The opening in Kansas City is attractive on several levels: The Chiefs had five Pro Bowl players despite their 2-14 record, they have the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft for the first time in franchise history, and it appears that Hunt is willing to give his next coach more authority to make personnel decisions than in years past.
The Eagles were just 12-20 the past two seasons, but Reid's overall record of 130-93-1 represents the most wins in franchise history. He also has experience turning around a program – the Eagles were just 3-13 the year before he arrived, and two years later they finished 11-5 and second in the NFC East.
That was the first of five straight years in which the Eagles won at least 11 games, and included a trip to the Super Bowl after the 2004 season.


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Greg Dunn is a visual artist and has a Ph.D in neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania. It's not so easy to tell at first glance whether Dunn is painting a branching pattern of a plant or that of a neuron. But maybe that's the point. Dunn's eye seems attuned to the dazzling beauty packed into the cellular architecture of each square millimeter of our nervous system, architecture that repeats itself all around us.
The neuronal imagery in Dunn's paintings appears to draw some influence from the early 20th century drawings of stained neurons by foundational figures like Santiago Ramon y Cajal (find our essay on the young Cajal here). Yet Dunn's work presents another clear influence, one that the artist himself discusses in the interview below. He is a deep admirer of a diverse range of pan-Asian artwork, and in his work this influence has made for elegant renderings of individual neurons and larger regions that exhibit both what Dunn calls the "raw and bold" quality of some Japanese and Chinese ink drawing traditions as well as their "simple, emotional, and direct" nature.
1. Where do you interests in the brain and in pan-Asian art originate?
I've always been interested in psychology and philosophy, and I suppose that was where my early interests lay. I've always been a pretty introverted person, so I spend a lot of time in my thoughts. Suffice to say, I am often puzzled by whats going on in there! As my scientific interests developed, I realized that really any biological system can be fascinating. However, what sets the brain apart is that it is the apparatus through which we experience the world. Every single human activity has a neurological story to it. If you're a scientist because you want to understand yourself, as I am, then it doesn't make sense to look any place else.
I honestly don't remember when my interest in Asian art began, but I suspect that it may have been in reaction to overexposure to Rennaissance art on one Europen trip or another I took with my family as a kid. In contrast to a lot of the art produced in Europe, Asian art was so simple, emotional, and direct. There was breathing room on the canvas, and the techniques were so raw and bold. It is the kind of art that just punches you in the gut with its immediate, visceral impact.
2. How did your tastes for pan-Asian art and your interest in the brain merge? What is it about these techniques and aesthetics– particularly in Japanese scroll and screen painting– that fit your aesthetic interpretation of the brain?
Neural forms and Asian painting styles collide in a completely natural way, and I am so fortunate that I found this out for myself because it has led to a very satisfying career as an artist/scientist. Neural forms are naturally elegant and spontaneous, characteristics that also describe the more traditional forms of Asian sumi-e painting- branches, grasses, etc. All that is required to connect the dots is the realization that you need to crank down your awareness to the micron scale to see that nature has very similar forms across different scales of magnitude. The branching form of a dendrite is nearly identical to the form of a branching tree, a series of cracks in the pavement, the movement of rivers and streams as viewed from space, or a lightning bolt. I wouldn't be surprised if the form were represented on a cosmic level as well. It is a fractal solution to the Universe.
3. First seen in slides and in medical imagery, do the images of neurons and glia in the brain change at all in your mind once you start working with their forms in an artistic setting? Do you have any examples of such a change?
My perception of the brain regions and the cells within them are always changing as I paint. This is because I'm always trying to walk a line between photorealism and interpretation. Using photomicrographs as a hard reference can be useful because it helps to hammer down the anatomy correctly, but it can rob the painting of sponteneity. It also robs the painter of the almost meditative discipline of learning how to emulate the random movements and branching of neurons, a deceptively difficult skill. The brain is always wanting to generate or pick out patterns in things, and it is a real challenge to try to avoid that tendency.
4. What has this artistic interpretation of brain structures done to your conception of the brain and its small units of processing? How has this artistic practice influenced your academic life, if at all?
It has really given me an appreciation for how utterly chaotic the microstructure of the brain is. For clarity's sake, I usually paint only a few neurons on a canvas to emphasize their form without obscuring it with too many lines, but the brain doesn't look like that at all. There's a cliché in neuroanatomy about how each brain region claims only so much "real estate," and that all of the processing units must be crammed into a very small space. Put together 100 billion neurons, each making up to thousands of synapses with one another, and the evolutionary limit on head size and you've got one densely packed little organ indeed. It is an unfathomable mess on the one hand, and exquisitely ordered on another. If these realizations have affected my academic life at all, it is in what a difficult organ it is to study! So heterogenous and complicated, it is a mighty challenge to understand the workings of just one neuron, let alone a whole brain full of them.
5. Do you believe the brain will ever understand itself, or is it vastly too complex to ever fully comprehend its own function, even through all the tools of modern science?
I had this conversation when I was just starting grad school with a friend of mine who recently finished his PhD, and it really stuck with me. There are some astounding geniuses out there that are making huge progress for us all. But one day, when imaging technology, data acquisition, supercomputing, etc reach the point when some of the really deep questions can be answered, I'm not sure how a human being can really grasp the avalanche of data. Even if a brain could fully understand itself, it seems impossible to me that it would be through the mediums of graphs, tables, connectivity diagrams, and all of that that would be the inevitable output. I'm personally not interested in that these days anyway. For me, it seems that a more relevant and rewarding approach of self discovery lies in personally developing an intuitive approach to understanding the brain. To understand my own brain I seriously practice meditation, the science of observing the mind. That is where I will be spending my future years of scientific inquiry, and hopefully I'll understanding something or other by the end of it all.
6. Beneath all, what do you find beautiful about the brain?
6. It is literally the most complicated object in the known Universe! The tremendous knot of cells when connected in a certain way gives rise to a strange sense of "I" that is able to ponder and learn things about its environment. It is an utter miracle, and is at the root of why we are conscious beings able to appreciate this world and all of its beauty. How can you not love it?!
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Date: 2:00pm PDT August 25, 2012 Location: Agnes Flanagan Chapel
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A concert in memory of Gus Mattersdorff, Professor Emeritus of Economics, will be held on Saturday, August 25 at 2 p.m. in the Agnes Flanagan Chapel. The concert will feature the Oregon Chorale of Hillsboro, who will perform some of Gus's favorite music by Bach, Brahms, and Wagner. A reception immediately following the concert will be held in Stamm Dining Room in Templeton, where there will be an opportunity to share remembrances and visit with his wife Ellie, sons Donald and Peter and other family members and friends.
The following link will take you to a wonderful and illuminating obituary of Gus http://www.mattersdorff.com/gus


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Damned for the Beloved?
Sometimes Romans 9:3 is put forward as the Achilles heel of Christian Hedonism. Is a Christian Hedonist willing to be damned for those he loves?
Christian Hedonism says that you ought to aim at maximizing your eternal joy in God in everything you do—even if it means selling all you have and giving it to the poor, being persecuted for righteousness' sake, returning good for evil with no hope of reward in this life, and finally dying as a nameless stranger in some foreign land.
In Romans 9:3, Paul expresses his willingness to be damned for the sake of his Jewish loved ones: "I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh." The imperfect tense of the verb wish ("I could wish") seems to imply that something stands in the way, and the action that is in process, namely, the willingness to be cut off from Christ, is hindered and can't be carried through. But it's the willingness that seems to create the problem. Is Paul acting as a Christian Hedonist?
Let me try to put myself in his place. Suppose I were standing before the Lord with my wife, whom I love very much. And suppose he says to me: One of you may enter heaven to be with me forever. Only one. And, John, you must choose which it will be, yourself or your wife, Noël.
Now this is a very dangerous hypothetical situation to imagine. It's dangerous because it will never exist. The Lord does not put us in that situation, and he does not send the person to hell who values him so highly, and loves others so deeply, as to put their fellowship with Christ above his own. But even though it is dangerous to imagine this situation, Paul seems to do just that. He is doing this to make it as clear as he can to his Jewish kinsmen how much he loves them and wants their eternal good.
So I have tried to be as honest as my heart would let me be in answering the Lord's question: You or your wife? Which will it be?
I believe the answer would be: Let her enter heaven.
As I have tried to imagine what would go through my head, it would go something like this. If I say: Let her go to hell and let me enter heaven, everything in me wants to curl up in a ball and chew my hands with shame. Everything in me wants to run away and hide from the face of the Lord. There are no dreams of everlasting joy, but only of everlasting shame. This is not heaven. This is no sweet communion with Christ. This is moral horror.
Not only that, but when I ponder the possibility of seeing Noël absolutely, utterly, sinlessly whole, never again to feel pain or depression or sorrow, but only breathtaking happiness in Christ, greater than she has never known, everything in me says, That would be a glorious sight. O, how I would love to see that sight. That would make my soul explode with gladness.
In other words, if I chose for Noël to be damned, heaven would be hellish for me. And if I chose for her to be saved, my hell-bound heart would sing in the flames. Heaven's joy would be in hell.
Which means that heaven would not be heaven, and hell would not be hell. It is impossible that heaven be filled with hellish shame, or that hell be filled heaven's joy. I suspect that precisely this impossibility is why Paul wrote Romans 9:3 the way he did: "I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ . . . ." Or literally: "I was wishing . . ." but the impossibility of the hypothetical situation made the wish unfulfillable. The wish cannot be carried through.
What then shall we say about the argument that Romans 9:3 as the Achilles heel of Christian Hedonism?
We shall say that Paul's willingness to be cut off from Christ for the sake of his Jewish kinsmen, like my willingness to be cut off from Christ for my wife's salvation, is rooted precisely in the commitments of Christian Hedonism: I shrink back from heaven as a horrible place of shame; and I embrace hell where my conscience is clear and the joy of my wife's salvation makes me eternally glad.
In fact, I would argue that it is precisely the impulses of Christian Hedonism that make Romans 9:3 work the way it does. Christian Hedonism believes passionately the words of our Lord Jesus that, when we face a painful sacrifice, we should remember "it is more blessed to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35). Christian Hedonism shrinks back with loathing from the selfishness that kills that blessedness. Therefore, Christian Hedonism drives Paul to flee from the remorse and self-loathing and horrors of conscience and divine disapproval that would come to him if he chose his own rescue over the rescue of his kinsmen.
It is difficult to imagine what Paul's love would be if it were not this: Shrinking back from the horrors in heaven of having saved his own skin at the price of his kinsmen, and embracing the blessedness of knowing in hell he gave and did not receive.
Romans 9:3 is not the Achilles heel of Christian Hedonism. Christian Hedonism is the key to Romans 9:3.


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Last week wednesday i applied with wells fargo through an old LO I knew from back in the day and she said on Friday that she would start working on my file earlier this week. So I reach out to her for an update. At the same time I went through PNC just because wells said all they need is 600 which I am good at, and my mid score should be 629 with TU so I should be okay with a FHA (pending the EX FAKO isnt too far off). I applied for PNC on thursday and the guy emailed me on Friday but i didnt call him back because immediately because the name wasnt familiar. So then I received another email from him on Tuesday, so I called him and he took my information over the phone. So today I pulled my EX to see if there has been any inquiries and it looks like PNC pulled today.(Nothing from wells yet). I know I am being impatient but I really am just curious to see if i quaify because I read several stories where people monitored there credit from these sites and then they go in and they are too different to apply. So once I know if I can start the house hunt or not I'll be pretty excited!
I have been working on my credit for a few months! I had two collections removed from experian as well as one charge off credit line deleted ane one loan added as included in my bankruptcy. The same for Transunion but only one collection was removed. My utilizations have fallen below 24% and since my bankruptcy I have not been late.
My scores are EX FAKO 647 TU 629(didnt have one of my accounts updated when I pulled) EX 615. I hope to hear something today! If not i'll try again next year!
So yay!!! I got my preapproval!!! I am so excited!!! Now the house hunting begins!!! My Transunion score was exactly correct, my eq was 619 and my experian was higher than I thought at 677! So close to 700, maybe next year! I'll keep you guys informed!!
Congrats! Happy hunting!
So yesterday i found a home and put in an offer and they seller accepted it today!!! yay!!! I am tooo excited!!! So this week is the inspection and now the terror that most people have, the underwriting part is going to happen. I am with Wells Fargo, anyone has any tips?
If I might ask, when type of BK was it and when discharged? I applied on Thursday with Wells with a 607 and waiting on a decision on preapproval.
My bk was a chapter 7 and it was discharged in 2010. So i became eligible for a loan early June. You may be okay because they do say they want a 600 and above but you will have to be careful not to open any new credit lines or have inquiries
So as of today, they accepted my offer and we are officially in contract!!!!!! Now i have to send my lender my info and now we are waiting for that dreaded u/w process. I have an inspector going through on Thursday so I am pretty excited!!!!!
also @ phumanr good luck!!!!
Thank you.
Mine was a discharged Chapter 13 BK on December 1, 2011. I have gotten varying feedback on this so I applied with Wells Fargo.
Well i definitely hope you get it! I wanted to move into an apt. but the amount for that was so high i thought home buying would be better.
My LO responded back today stating that she would start working on it, my contract was sent to her yesterday by my realtor and my inspection is confirmed for tomorrow. From what i understand I believe the LO has 3 days to get back to me regarding my GFE which i am not sure if it started yesterday or today but i know she has until the end of the week!!


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It took me until today to realize, and then confirm, that I can finally have an iPhone and still use Google Voice natively. Via Sprint.
Background – in 2009 I bailed on the iPhone. Too many AT&T issues. And more importantly, I ported my mobile number to Google Voice. If I wanted to use that phone number with a mobile phone (and I did), I needed a phone that integrated with Google Voice natively. Apple didn't allow that.
Google Voice is an awesome service because it allows me to set which phones ring whenever someone calls that number. If you call me on my mobile number it might ring one of many cell phones that I have, or Skype (via SkypeIn), or my home phone, or on Gmail. I can send and receive text messages via my browser, and voicemails are auto-transcribed (which can be hilarious).
I could still use Google Voice with an iPhone. Calls can easily be forwarded to any phone, including an iPhone, and the Google Voice iPhone app lets you place calls as well. But without native integration into the address book and, crucially, the call log, you always have to open the Google Voice app to make any calls. You can't simply call someone back from your call log, which is a good percentage of my outgoing calls.
So I went all Android in 2009 and have been there ever since. My current phone is the original Nexus. I still think that's the best Android phone on the market today, and it's nearly two years old.
Anyhow, earlier this year Google announced deal with Sprint that allows any Sprint customer to make their phone number also a Google Voice number. Or, if you already use Google Voice, you can make the phone number associated with the phone the same number.
Bingo. No app needed. And it works with the new iPhone 4S, too, I'm told from someone at Google (I'll check it myself tomorrow). Google doesn't need Apple's permission to take over the address book and call log. They've moved down the stack to control the device's actual phone number.
What an amazing world we live in. Next week, fingers crossed, I'll be using an iPhone with Google Voice natively. The cherry on top is that AT&T will be nowhere in sight. Sure, in a few months I'll be ranting (again) about how awful Sprint is in general. But first, the honeymoon.
Best of all, the iPhone v. Google Voice religious war MG Siegler and I have been engaged in for years is over. Instead, the churches just merged. What a perfect video to capture the moment.


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MFA degree The San Francisco Art Institute. Sculpture Department. San Francisco, USA. 2008 – 2010.
B.F.A. degree from The Icelandic Academy of The Arts. Visual Arts department. Reykjavik, Iceland. 2004 – 2008.
Select Exhibitions
Breaking My Spell. An endurance performance art and fashion ritual by Michelle L. Morby. Head fashion designer. Reykjavik Marathon. Reykjavik, Iceland. 2011.
Vernissage, The San Francisco Art Institute MFA Graduation Exhibition. Fort Mason Center, Herbst Pavilion. San Francisco. 2010.
Do you want to C my little c? Group exhibition with Graduate program students at San Francisco Art Institute. Curator and participant. The Swell Gallery. San Francisco. 1010.
Wonderland. Offstage. Group exhibition curated by Lance Fung. The Tenderloin area. San Francisco. 2009.
Project Survival. Project manager and participant. Group exhibition with students of Carlos Villa at the San Francisco Art Institute. In Collaboration with The Luggage Store Gallery. The Warfield Building. San Francisco. 2009.
BFA Exhibition with students graduating from BFA program of the Iceland Academy of the Arts. Kjarvalsstadir. Reykjavik, Iceland. 2008.
Naergongul fjarvera (Intrusive Absence). Collaboration with Eva Dagbjört Óladóttir. Gallery Smatima. Reykjavik, Iceland. 2007.
Thridji urgangur – Faraldur. Minus afsokun. Group exhibition with students from the Iceland Academy of The Arts. Austurbaer. Reykjavik, Iceland. 2007.
DIONISIA. Co-curator. Residencies and collaborations, hosted by various small towns of Iceland. 2007.
Midbaugur – Perla. Group exhibition with students from the Iceland Academy of The Arts. Perlan. Reykjavik, Iceland. 2007.
Mini Me. Group exhibition with students from the Iceland Academy of The Arts. Gallery Gyllinhaed. Reykjavik, Iceland. 2006.
Garnival. Thorsgata 6. Reykjavik, Iceland. Culture Night 2005.
Gjorningavedur, performance night. In Collaboration with Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir. The Modern Art Museum. Reykjavik, Iceland. 2005.
Untitled. Group exhibition with students from the Iceland Academy of The Arts. The Icelandic Natural History Museum. Reykjavik, Iceland. 2004.
Viking Saga. Voice-actor for audio project by Rod Summers. Reykjavik, Iceland. 2008.
Foxbyte. Artwork for album Foxbyte by band Mr. Silla & Mongoose. In collaboration with Sigurlaug Gísladóttir. Reykjavik, Iceland. 2007


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Play a Yertle the Turtle Stacking Game
Inspired by Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss, this goofy activity requires a steady hand and a good sense of balance. In the story, greedy Yertle makes a stack of turtles for a throne, but in the end he stacks too many and they all come toppling down. Celebrate this classic kids' tale by challenging your preschooler to follow Yertle's lead and create her own stack of walnut shell turtles.
What You Need:
- Walnut shells (at least 4 whole)
- Glue
- White fuzzy craft balls (medium)
- Wiggly eyes (small)
- Blue paint
What You Do:
- Before playing the stacking game, she should assemble her turtles. To do so, start by painting the walnut shells blue. Each half a walnut shell will be used to make one turtle.
- After the shells dry, have her take one of the half-shells and glue five white craft balls to it. The fuzzy balls will represent the the legs and head of the turtle, so be sure to place them accordingly. Let dry.
- Encourage her to add two wiggly eyes to the head of the turtle. Allow these to dry as well.
- She's finished her first turtle! Have her repeat until she has made at least eight turtles.
- Now she is ready to play the stacking game. Have her try to carefully stack the turtles on top of each other to balance them into one vertical stack. How many can she balance on top of each other? If it's too easy, have her make some more turtles and keep stacking! If it's too difficult, stack the turtles in a pyramid shape instead, or hollow out the shells a bit more so that they stack more easily.
Try adding a counting element to this game by having her count the turtles as she stacks them! She won't even realize she's practicing her math skills with this one.


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West Lowndes defeats East Oktibbeha
CRAWFORD – The East Oktibbeha Titans fell to 0-2 this season after a 20-12 loss to rival West Lowndes Friday night in their final tune-up before starting district play next week.
West Lowndes junior running back Antonio Wilson proved to be too much to handle for the Titans, setting the tone early with a 79-yard touchdown run on the second play from scrimmage. Wilson went on to rush for 199 yards and gain 43-yards receiving coming out of the backfield.
The Titans only chance to take the lead in the game came early in the fourth quarter when they were down by two and on the West Lowndes 9-yard line after a 20-yard run by senior quarterback Chris Hunter. Unfortunately for the Titans, Hunter's next pass was intercepted by Tyquan Lucious, ending the scoring threat.
First-year head coach Randy Brooks said the interception was one of many mistakes made by upperclassmen in the game.
"We had the proper play called where he throws the ball to the corner of the end zone to the receiver, and he threw it in the middle of the field," Brooks said. "Once again that is one of those lapse of judgments that we keep making."
Hunter did have his bright spots in the game, which came in the form of two long touchdown passes. Hunter found Kortland Petty for a 33-yard score in the second quarter, and a 37-yard touchdown pass to Juwan Roberts brought the Titans back from a 14-0 deficit to 14-12 with 3:20 left in the third quarter.
Both Petty and Roberts rebounded from mistakes earlier in the game to haul in the touchdowns. Petty let two passes slip through his hands with room to run ahead of him in the first half, and Roberts was burned on the corner by West Lowndes receiver Jamarquis Humphries for a 32-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter. Brooks said the recovery the two receivers made is a sign of the inexperienced players maturing.
"They're starting to mature," Brooks said. "Roberts is a sophomore, and Petty is a junior, and this is his first full year of football. Both of those guys are starting to show signs of maturity."
After Lucious' interception, West Lowndes used Wilson to control the ball and run the clock on the Titans, and added another touchdown on a quarterback sneak by Gerald Sanders.
A late drive by the Titans ended with another interception, and West Lowndes ran the clock out on their 20-12 victory to bring them back to .500 at 1-1.
For Brooks and the Titans, it will be a long week ahead as they prepare for district foe and cross-county rival West Oktibbeha next Friday. Brooks is looking to see more desire from his players, and avoid non-aggressive penalties like the numerous off-sides and false starts that were called in Friday's contest.
"It's a lack of desire on some of our kids parts," Brooks said. "They'll take a play off."
When it comes to stopping Wilson, Brooks admitted that not many people will be able to stop him this season.
"We're certainly not the last one that he's gonna run for over 100 yards on," Brooks said.


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Serena Software Wins Coveted Pink Elephant Innovation Award for Its ITSM Solution(February 21, 2012)
LAS VEGAS, NV -- (Marketwire) -- 02/21/12 -- Pink Elephant IT Service Management Conference - Serena Software
- Serena Service Manager Named Winner of Pink Elephant's 2011 Innovation of the Year Award
- Integration of Service Management and Release Management is Recognized
- Latest Major Release of Serena Service Manager, Now Shipping, Showcased at Pink Elephant IT Service Management Conference
- Serena Boasts Solid Customer Momentum and Worldwide Gains with Innovative ITSM Solution
Serena Software, the Orchestrated IT leader, today announced its market-changing IT Service Management (ITSM) solution, Serena Service Manager, was named overall winner for Pink Elephant's 2011 Innovation of the Year Award. This prestigious award win is an exclamation point to the great momentum Serena has seen since introducing Serena Service Manager last year. Product innovation, strong worldwide demand for the technology and product recognition by leading industry influencers is setting the stage for Serena to take the ITSM market by storm in 2012.
Serena Service Manager is the only ITSM offering on the market today that leverages a process-based approach. Linking people with process in orchestrated service management, Serena tackles the current challenges around flexibility, visibility and usability inherent in legacy ITSM solutions. In less than a year, Serena Service Manager has boasted solid sales with dozens of new customers relying on the solution today. Customers cite ease of use, affordability, customized delivered services and quick deployment times as key differentiators over legacy ITSM offerings.
An important consideration in recognizing Serena Service Manager as ITIL Innovation of the year is the demonstrated integration of Serena's service management and release management solutions. Together, Serena Service Manager and Serena Release Manager help bridge the Dev-Ops divide, helping IT organizations ensure that all changes going into production are managed seamlessly, controlled throughout and completely visible.
Serena is showcasing its award-winning Serena Service Manager technology at Pink Elephant's 16th Annual International IT Service Management Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas this week. Serena spans two rows and holds court from booths 214 to 315. The just-released Serena Service Manager 3 packs innovative features that further strengthen the Dev-Ops bridge and foster greater collaboration around issue resolution and aid service level management.
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"We are thrilled Serena Service Manager has been recognized by Pink Elephant and named Innovation of the Year award winner. Pink Elephant is the preeminent ITSM organization and to have our technology rise above competing products in such a short period of time is a huge honor, and underscores the value of our ITSM solution," said John Nugent, president and CEO of Serena Software. "More and more enterprise IT leaders express dissatisfaction with their on-premise 'ERP-like' IT service management solutions. The gripe is these systems are complex, costly and difficult to extend and customize. Serena Service Manager is the antithesis of the on-premise ERP approach and can be implemented at one-tenth of the time and cost compared to traditional service management solutions out there."
"We evaluated Serena Service Manager and it does exactly what we need it to do. It is extremely comprehensive and provides an interface that is both easy for us to use and also customize, when needed," said Quinn Lanus, director of technical services and operations for SunGard. "The other products that we looked at were too rigid and didn't offer the level of flexibility we required. Price and deep reporting capabilities also played an important role in our decision to go with Serena -- the competition didn't come close."
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- Serena Software
- Serena Service Manager Solution page
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- Serena Blog
- One-Minute Video on Serena Innovation, shown at Pink 12
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Serena Software provides solutions that orchestrate application delivery, IT operations and business processes for the Global 2000. Serena's mission is to help enterprises orchestrate their world. Its 4,000 active enterprise customers, encompassing almost one million users worldwide, have made Serena the largest independent ALM vendor, and are now using Serena to orchestrate IT service management and many other processes. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Serena serves enterprise customers from 29 offices in 14 countries. Serena is a portfolio company of Silver Lake Partners, the leader in private investments in technology-enabled industries. For more information on Serena, visit http://www.serena.com.
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Finding Christmas meaning in a catalog
This Side Up
There seems to be no end to them. Christmas catalogs have been arriving for the past couple of months and what started off as a trickle has become a torrent. Our mailbox is stuffed.
The pile usually ends up on the dining room table, along with "important" mail such as bills to be sorted out at some point. And from there it goes – I wish we could do the same with the bills – into a brown paper bag for recycling.
Well, there's a little more discretion applied than what might be suggested, but not much. That is until I got my copy of The Paragon, Living and Giving at its Best.
Based on the cover, a white cuddly kitten photo-shopped next to a cat tote, it was a prime candidate for recycling. But it was so saccharine, I had to open it, if just for amusement.
I'm glad I did, for never would I have discovered the musical keyboard necktie that promised to be the life of the party. For $14.99, the tie plays eight notes that are sure to give new meaning to "tie one on."
In disbelief that anyone would dream of making and selling such neckwear, I flipped a few more pages. It got better.
There was the Wellie-Wearing Pig.
Every front door should have this "delightful" [yes, that's the word] pet cast in "durable weather-resistant polyresin." This little guy, who looks like it escaped the barbecue spit, stands 6 inches high in his green Wellingtons, sells for $24.99.
"I found it," I declared to Carol who was in the kitchen.
"What?" came the somewhat exasperated reply. She was making dinner.
"The Christmas present I've been searching for."
That piqued her interest.
She was at my side to see for herself.
She wasn't to be outdone.
"How could you have missed it? It's that," she said, pointing to a sleep shirt on the adjoining page; pink, with a dog standing with a cup of steaming coffee and the words, "pawsitively exhausted."
We kept turning pages, discovering gifts, each one more ridiculous than the last. There was the mini paintball blaster; the 2-carat coffee mug, with a ring on the side so the ring finger can easily slip in; headlight lashes for her car; and "the incredible fishing rod pen" for him. The pen telescopes out to a 38-inch rod and mini brass reel with 2-pound, 3-ounce line.
What a trove of the fanciful! There were caps and T-shirts with the words "Real men use duct tape" and "Bank on dad, open 24 hours" and the T-shirt [presumably for her] with, "Let's assume I'm right. It will save time."
We kept turning pages and kept laughing. It was the best therapy for the frenetic shopping season that officially starts this Friday.
For the moment, dinner was forgotten. We imagined who would be the appropriate recipient for one ludicrous gift after the next and how they would react. Perhaps it's not such a foolish thought after all – totally absurd gifts that may serve little or no purpose other than for the recipient to wonder, "What were you thinking?"
The answer should be obvious – I was thinking of you, and how you would get a kick out of this.
Isn't that what Christmas should be about?
I'll bet Carol would never forget a set of fingertip light lasers.


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I'm praising the wonderful and geographically elusive olallieberry. I say oh-la-la, some say oh-la-lee. What I love about these berries is that they taste like a cross between a blackberry and a rasberry-- a little tart, and very juicy. They make incredibly delicious pies, crisps and jams.
A few years ago, my husband and I spent a weekend in Cambria, California. Linn's restaurant is known for growing olallieberries and for including plenty of bakery treats made with these berries. We took a lovely drive to one of their farm, and we purchased one of their berry plants.
Yesterday, I decided to check on how our one and only olallieberry plant (it's actually a vine) was doing...
Yes! We have berries!
I picked two of the ripest looking berries and rinsed them. My hubby and I tasted one and smiled. They were sweet and tart!
June is, typically, when olallieberry season begins-- but I got a jump start on it. Here's my secret-- I freeze them. They freeze exceptionally well, because I found my last stash of last year's olallieberries. Score! I decided to make an olallieberry crisp because they're so easy to make.
I'm always on the lookout for a new and improved version of making fruit crisps. I know that oats are a must. I leave out the nuts, since my son isn't crazy about them. Otherwise, I'd use walnuts or pecans. As for the filling-- I'm still undecided if I prefer flour, tapioca or cornstarch as my thickener. I settled on a recipe from Gourmet Magazine:
I use white sugar, brown sugar, old-fashioned oats, butter, cinnamon, fresh grated nutmeg & salt and lemon juice (for the berries).
I fine that olallieberries can be a bit tart, so I don't skimp on the sugar. This time I used flour as my thickener.
I add ice cold butter and cut it into the dry ingredients.
My dish is buttered, the berries are added and then an even topping of the crumb mixture-- and pop this wonderful quick dessert in a 350F oven for about 25 minutes.
Bubbling goodness! If you don't have olallieberries, this crisp topping works well with any kind of berries, pears, peaches... use your imagination.
I am about a 30 minute drive to Gizdich Ranch, where we can pick our own olallieberries. While our miniature vineyard of these berries have fruit, it's not enough to satisfy how much we love them. I'm heading up there within the next two weeks. I promised myself that I was going to learn to make my own jam, and this is it! I already the utensils to do this, so stay tuned. My husband absolutely loves these berries, so he's going to enjoy pies, tarts, turnovers and jam.
I doubt he'll ever tire of that. I wonder-- has anyone been able to find these outside of the Western United States? I sure hope so. They are terrific!


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A 22-year-old Silver Springs man accused of having sex with a teenager was arrested Monday.
A 22-year-old Silver Springs man accused of having sex with a teenager was arrested Monday.
Wayne Farrell White Jr. was charged with three counts of lewd and lascivious battery and resisting arrest without violence, according to a Marion County Sheriff's Office report.
Sheriff's Detective Stacey Skinner interviewed the teen, and she told him that she and White had sex twice and that on one occasion he fondled her. The acts were consensual, she said, and occurred when she was 14.
Deputy Charles McIntosh went to an Ocala address to pick up White, who tried to resist being taken into custody, according to the report. But the deputy, with assistance from a colleague, was able to arrest him.
White denied the allegations of sex with the girl and told Skinner he was going to wait until she was 18 so he could date her, according to the Sheriff's Office. He was arrested and taken to the Marion County Jail.
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n. a person who hates Microsoft and Windows and only uses Linux. Lunix Fags often also read the nerd news discussion website slashdot where they whine about how much microsoft sucks and how open source software is oppressed by the over-controlling U.S. Government.
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The Dalton Freight Depot was orginally built as the Southern Railway Freight Depot in 1911. The depot was restored by the city in 2009 and today houses the Dalton Visitor's Center and Gift Shop. Inside, explore display cases on railroad and Civil War history.
The Freight Depot is a train fan's delight with a covered viewing platform, an ATCS monitor that allows you to see approaching trains, live audio feed from train radios and live streaming web cam. Watch the dual tracks of the CSX and Norfolk Southern Railroads pass the "Dalton Diamond," a 45-degree rail crossing directly in front of the viewing platform. Adjacent to the depot is the 1949 Southern "Crescent City" Pullman car.
This is the place to start your visit to Dalton. Open daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Sundays.
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Bit Error Rate Analysis and Eye Diagram Scope Apps
The Bit Error Rate Analysis and Eye Diagram Scope apps are included in Communications System Toolbox. You can find them, along with the rest of the apps for your installed products, by clicking the Apps tab in the MATLAB Toolstrip.
The Eye Diagram Scope app enables you to visualize and measure the effects of various impairments (e.g. noise, jitter, and filtering) on a modulated signal. The scope performs a probability density function (pdf) analysis on the signal to illustrate its trajectory in time, and to calculate such quantities as eye SNR, RMS jitter, rise time, and fall time. It also enables you to import and compare measurement results for eye diagrams of multiple signals.
The Bit Error Rate Analysis (BERTool) app enables you to analyze the bit error rate (BER) performance of communications systems. BERTool computes the BER as a function of signal-to-noise ratio. It analyzes performance either with Monte-Carlo simulation of MATLAB functions and Simulink® models, or with theoretical closed-form expressions for selected types of communication systems.
Apps are interactive MATLAB programs you can use without writing any code. Most toolboxes come with apps, and you can download more for free from the MATLAB File Exchange. You can also package and share your own apps.


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Video: Panamax MB850 Uninterruptible Power Supply & Surge Protector
Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
Learn about Panamax's MB850, including how it can act as a battery backup for your audio/video gear, while also protecting your whole system from harmful power surges.
Video Transcript
Chris: Hi. I'm Chris.
J.R.: And I'm JR and we're here in the Crutchfield video studio today with the Panamax MB850. You know you've probably spent a lot of money on your equipment, you've got a flat panel TV on the wall and a home theater surround sound receiver and a Blu-ray player. So the last thing you want is for that stuff to get zapped by lightning, and you want to protect them and that's what this is for.
Chris: This is great insurance for your home theater gear. The 850 does it really well. It does it all. It's got power protection. It's got line conditioning, but a little something extra too.
J.R.: Yeah, I've got two words for you Chris: battery backup.
Chris: Exactly.
J.R.: Of the nine outlets on the back here, five of them are backed up by a battery. So if your power were to go out like, say while you were playing a game or watching TV, you know, some of your equipment would shut off instantly. But the five items you've got plugged into the battery backup will stay on until you safely shut them down.
Chris: Exactly.
J.R.: It's called an Uninterruptible Power Supply and at this price that's hard to find.
Chris: The 850 is a really great system for components that you have that have a hard drive, like a DVR. Let's say that you're recording the season finale of your favorite show. If the power goes out, you want to make sure that it's backed up by battery power so that you can keep recording.
J.R.: Absolutely. Or maybe you're playing a video game and you've been playing all day and the power goes out, well you certainly want that console to stay on so you can save your information and shut it down safely later on.
Chris: Right. Now all of the gear that's plugged into the 850 is protected from surges and spikes in power, but it has another neat thing called automatic voltage regulation.
J.R.: Yeah. The power coming out of your walls should be about 120 volts or within a safe range there. All surge protectors are looking for spikes and surges, and so is the 850, but it's also monitoring for slow increases and slow decreases in power that can damage sensitive equipment inside your components.
Chris: Like a "brownout."
J.R.: Exactly. And so if it sees the power go outside of that safe range, it's going to immediately shut down power from the wall.
Chris: Right, but the cool thing about the 850 because it's a UPS is that the components that you have hooked up to the battery backup will stay on, so you have time to properly shut them down.
J.R.: Exactly. And you know the power coming out of your wall is dirty, so at the same time it's cleaning up the power so that you actually get better picture and better sound because of that.
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|This guide shows how to install GNUstep-base with clang, blocks and Grand Central Dispatch on Linux.
|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch Grand Central Dispatch] is a library to assist building apps on multi-core processors. The library for Grand Central Dispatch is called libdispatch, and tasks can be submitted to GCD in blocks or with a C API. To understand the process below, some notes are in order. If you're in a hurry, you can probably skip the notes down to the install instructions.
|=== GNUstep runtime ===
|So far as GNUstep, the runtime library for Objective C code used to be called libobjc until Apple released Objective C version 2, and then is called libobjc2. You can get the background here: http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/ObjC2_FAQ . (Note Debian and Ubuntu libobjc3 and libobjc4 are still based on libobjc and libobjc2 but numbered differently).
|* libobjc2 built with GCC 4.6 and 4.7 has most of Objective C v2 supported, but doesn't have blocks support
|* libobjc2 built with Clang does have block support: (use -fblocks flag when compiling your own code)
|* GNUstep provides block support, whether the compiler does or not. So if using GNUstep, you can use blocks with a GCC libobjc2.
|* libdispatch currently has some build requirements that necessitate using clang.
|So we're going with a clang build since a working GCD is the aim here.
|Next, we observe that Debian wheezy and Ubuntu 13 have a libdispatch infrastructure built on clang (libobjc2 and libdispatch are built using clang). So there are some more decisions:-
|Why not just run with what Debian provides instead of compiling from scratch, i.e.
|* libobjc2, libdispatch, cblocksruntime compiled with erlang
|* gnustep programs compiled with gcc
|To make a decision, here is some background on GCD and blocks
|* GCD: As far as I can make out, there are two implementations of GCD out there for Linux. One by [https://www.heily.com/trac/libdispatch/ Mark Heily] and one called [http://opensource.mlba-team.de/xdispatch/docs/current/index.html libxdispatch]. So far as using GCD with GNUstep, Mark's library is the one to use, and this is also the libdispatch library in Debian and Ubuntu.
|* GCD is more than just a C library. It requires support from the kernel with light threads (libpthread), and an adptation of BSD signals for Linux (libkqueue).
|* Blocks: Using blocks with GCD will often result in simpler and more elegant code, but blocks are not part of standard C. Mark provides a 'blocks' library called 'libblocksruntime', but even better, GNUstep has its own implementation of blocks. The two libarires are based on Apples blocks library and have the same API. However, what is not obvious is that the ABI of libblocksruntime is C, however the ABI of GNUstep is objective C. And mixing the two ABIs could lead to memory corruption under certain circumstances. ([https://github.com/nickhutchinson/libdispatch/issues/2 See xcvista's second comment].)
|In fact, I did try to get libdispatch working on Kubuntu 13. I found that the gcc package must be installed in order to get the objc.h header to compile against, and I had to put the location of objc.h in <GNUstep root>/Makefiles/config.make, as well as adding clang in there. Being new to GNUstep I had a couple of other issues, and I started having the "bad smell" feeling that goes with graunching two ABIs. In addition, expert posts to the gnustep-discuss newsgroup this year consistently recommended installing from source, so to the the source we go.
|== libobjc2 and gnustep-base installation from source ==
|Ivan Vucica has a handy install script for download: https://bitbucket.org/ivucica/
|* I recommend you have a fresh Debian or Ubuntu installation. If not, you should remove all gnustep packages, libobjc* packages, libdispatch* packages, and libblocksruntime* packages.
|* I ran installs on both Gentoo/Funtoo Linux and Kubuntu 13. Funtoo takes a while to setup, but c
|And now with reference to Ivan's script, here are issues I found:-
|* Kubuntu 13 doesn't seem to have an openssl-dev package so left it out.
|* libobjc2 uses cmake now. I tried to "make" as per the script, and it failed. There were build i
|* you can run "make check" at the end of the gnustep-base install to run the tests


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Family sues NISD over third grader's invitations
A third-grade student at Hillcrest Elementary School who wanted to invite a few friends to a church event, but was told by school officials that he couldn't, now is a plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against the Nederland school district.
Jeremy D. Tedesco, an attorney for the Alliance Defense Fund, is representing the boy and his family. Tedesco said the boy's father, Michael Metcalf, is suing the district for a violation of his son's constitutional rights.
According to the lawsuit, filed in a federal court on April 3, Metcalf contacted his son's teacher in December to see if it would be all right for his son to invite his school friends to an Aware Workers are Not Ashamed meeting at Hillcrest Baptist Church in Nederland.
The boy intended to only distribute invitations to two classmates but was told by his teacher that school policy required that he invite everyone in the class so that "no student feels left out or excluded," according to the lawsuit.
Metcalf's son complied with the teacher's request and created 18 handwritten invitations for all of his classmates, but when he showed up with the invitations, he was told he could not distribute them, according to the lawsuit.
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(CBS/AP) BUFFALO, N.Y. - Police scoured the Buffalo area Thursday morning, searching for an award-winning trauma surgeon and former military weapons expert to question him about the fatal shooting of a receptionist at the hospital where they worked.
City police spokesman Michael DeGeorge wouldn't divulge details of the search, where police were focused or how many officers were involved. He only said the search for 49-year-old Timothy Jorden was extensive and ongoing. Police say Jorden may be armed and should be considered dangerous.
Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda was expected to give an update on the killing by noon.
On Thursday morning, there were no memorials and no sign of Wednesday's violence at the Erie County Medical Center, where 33-year-old Jacqueline Wisniewski was gunned down in a stairwell.
Jorden, who has been licensed to practice medicine in New York for a decade, has served as a role model for black youth in Buffalo, people who know him told the Buffalo News.
Betty Jean Grant, chairwoman of the Erie County Legislature, told the newspaper she watched Jorden grow up and never knew him to get into any trouble.
"It's tragic that a doctor who saved countless lives might be accused of taking someone else's life," she said. "It puts a dark cloud over the mission of a hospital that's dedicated to saving lives."
Police say Wisniewski was shot four times. Derenda said the shooting wasn't a random act, and media reports say Wisniewski was Jorden's ex-girlfriend.
After the shooting, police unsuccessfully searched inside for the gunman for more than four hours.
They blocked a road leading to the surgeon's home in an isolated area of private Lake View residences near the Lake Erie shore. SWAT team members in camouflage arrived in unmarked SUVs. A helicopter flew over the house before leaving. Police later said the house was empty.
Heather Shipley, a friend of Wisniewski, told CBS Buffalo affiliate WIVB-TV that Wisniewski feared Jorden. Wisniewski used to live with Jorden but left him because she believed he was having affairs with other women, Shipley said. When they broke up, he wouldn't let go, Shipley said.
She said Wisniewski told her the doctor had put a GPS tracking device in her car and once held her captive in her home for a day and a half, wielding a knife.
"She told me if anything happened to her, that it was him," Shipley told the station.
Calls to several family members of Wisniewski were either to outdated phone numbers or were not immediately returned.
Jorden's colleagues told the Buffalo News that he had been acting strangely in recent months, avoiding eye contact and basic communication. They also say he had lost a lot of weight — as much as 75 pounds, estimated Michael Carr, who works in the surgical recovery room.
"All I know is he was a good doctor, really polite," Carr told the newspaper. "He always had something good to say."
Jorden has a medical degree from the University at Buffalo and trained at the Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash. He received his certification from the American Board of Surgery in 2004.
The News reported that Jorden joined the National Guard in high school, went into the Army after graduation and served with the Army's Special Forces, first as a weapons expert, then as a medic. In those roles, he served in the Caribbean, Japan and Korea.
Jorden is certified in advanced-trauma life support and has received numerous awards recognizing his relationships with patients, his teaching skills and his involvement in the community, the newspaper said.
Calls to two listings in Washington state for Jorden's ex-wife, Frances, were not returned.
Officials said as many as 400 patients and about half of the hospital's 2,000 employees were on the grounds at the time of the shooting.
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It's the equivalent of jamming with the Stones or feeding a bounce pass to Michael Jordan. I'm in Las Vegas, where I've been invited to cook with not one, two, or three, but seven of the country's top French chefs–the best in the business.
The seven-course meal, replete with suitable wines (including three first-growth Bordeaux and the renowned Chateau d'Yquem), is being held to benefit the New York-based James Beard Foundation, and is taking place in the Rio Hotel and Casino's ultra-swank Napa Restaurant. Napa, the jewel of the Rio and one of the best-appointed restaurants in the United States, is run by Jean-Louis Palladin, former chef at the Watergate and generally acknowledged to be the guru of the current generation of French chefs cooking in America. More than 100 people have paid between $200 and $250 each for the meal of a lifetime; by the end of the evening, that seemingly steep price is generally agreed to be a bargain.
From my perspective, the event really began with the over-the-top meal prepared the night before by Palladin and his staff for the chefs and their hangers-on. To fully comprehend that meal, which began at about 11 p.m., after the restaurant had closed, you must understand that one top chef never hosts another without trying to blow him away. Since impressing a four-star chef with your cooking is not easy (note: don't try this at home), and since among his guests were seven such chefs, even Palladin had been worked up for weeks in advance, planning the menu and procuring ingredients that you can't find at Safeway.
The meal's luxury level became apparent the minute the waiters began pouring a '63 Port, generally considered the vintage of the century and almost never served as an aperitif. This accompanied a soup based on fresh porcini, the most coveted of the world's wild mushrooms, and "garnished"—chefs use the term very loosely—with an incomparably creamy marrow flan. The meal went from there, with rare wines accompanying rare ingredients, such as a cold steamed Dungeness-like crab from Brittany that had the chefs in up to their elbows.
The piece de resistance was a pair of suckling pigs that Palladin had boned and stuffed with a mixture of porcini, $200-a-pound truffles, sweetbreads, foie gras (the liver of force-fed ducks), and other delicacies, then roasted to a perfect crispness. Slices of the pig were perfect mosaics, so beautiful it was difficult to mar them with a knife. We managed.
The chefs began to trickle in to work about six hours after dinner ended. They first checked in with their sous-chefs about the status of ingredients and any last-minute needs, then consulted with Palladin about the plate on which their given dish would be served. Since much of the food would be prepared a la minute (just before serving), the day would be spent in "prep"—washing, drying, cutting, peeling, dicing, shredding, boning, mixing, and so on.
For me, the morning work is straightforward; I can't mince like Martin Yang, but I can get the work done. During these hours, I dice leeks with Jean-Georges Vongerichten, the chef at Restaurant Jean Georges, minced truffles and foie gras with Daniel Boulud (Restaurant Daniel), and assembled a sample plate of Spanish mackerel tartare with caviar with Eric Ripert (Le Bernardin). I am in good company: The restaurants run by these men comprise three-fifths of New York City's four-star establishments.
After a quick break for lunch, the serious work begins. I check in with Michel Richard, the cherubic, ebullient chef of Los Angeles' Citrus and a number of other restaurants. Richard had agreed to prepare the dessert, the most difficult dish at this event because, unlike the six savory dishes, it stands on its own. He had taken the challenge seriously, preparing an apple charlotte with poached pear and chocolate-Port sauce, along with a host of petits fours, each of which was a mind-blower.
Richard's reputation precedes him; he's known as a wizard of technique, able to create dishes that would not even occur to others. Incredibly, he puts me to work using beaten egg yolks as glue in cementing pairs of small pastry circles together. That done, he demonstrates how to deep-fry them, splashing their tops with hot oil until they puff into small balloons. (These, in turn, will be rolled in butter, sugar, and nuts, and baked until crisp. Impressive as they are, they are essentially another "garnish.") Fascinated, I try a few, and although I screw up plenty, my success rate is evidently high enough, for he leaves me alone. I work at producing these small miracles for about an hour.
By now, some of the other chefs are being forced to apply themselves, and my labor—unskilled as it may be—is in demand. I join Hubert Keller (Fleur de Lys, San Francisco) in putting the finishing touches on his foie gras with herbs and black pepper. It's a terrine, or loaf, that makes beautiful slices. Although the cutting could be done at the last minute, Keller prefers to do it in advance, so that he can spray each slice individually with a liquefied duck aspic; chilled, this will put a lovely glaze on the meat. I proceed to spray 130 slices (we're making extra, figuring either the crowd will grow or the cooks will eat) while he turns to the garnish, a radicchio salad with truffle vinaigrette.
For some of the other chefs—Ripert, Vongerichten, Keller, and the lone woman, Ariane Daguin—most of the hard work is over by late afternoon. They walk around checking out each other's dishes, and stand in awe as Michel Richard works his magic. Richard generously allows me to demonstrate how to make a few fried pastry balls, and for a moment I feel a bit like part of the gang.
At about 7 p.m., everything is calm. The chefs are joking and even the cooks—who do the real grunt work, who sweat and get yelled at—are relaxed. This is so brilliantly organized that momentarily there is little to do. Daguin sends out her assorted charcuterie; her company, D'Artagnan, supplies meats to many of the chefs here, and she specializes in the earthy cooking of southwestern France. Her platters contain all the parts of the duck on one plate: salt-cured duck, which is akin to prosciutto and taken from the breast; smoked breast; smoked wings; the meat from the legs cooked down to a rich spread called rillettes; and her showy specialty, the "French kiss": prunes, marinated in Armagnac and stuffed with foie gras and truffles.
Since her food is served at room temperature, Daguin was ready hours ago and needs no assistance. But I have offered to help each chef finish his dish, and as we swing into action and the mood turns deadly serious, I realize this is no joke. (If I had not already realized it, the dressing down Palladin gives me after hearing me make a wisecrack—"You don't make jokes during service"—clued me in.)
Perhaps, like me, you have never considered what it means to serve 120 plates containing the same food all at once. If you have, you certainly haven't thought about what that means when all the plates must arrive hot and look beyond beautiful, all the way to perfect. This is not a school lunch assembly line. For the cold dishes, the plates are lined up on the tables in an unfinished cement-block room behind the kitchen; the hot ones will be dealt with right at the stove.
So, as Daguin's charcuterie circulates with cocktails, I help Ripert assemble his small cylinders of Spanish mackerel. We have 125 molds, and fill them all with the mackerel mixture, top them with caviar, and place each on a tray. Then we move the trays to the back room and carefully plate each one, gently sliding it from its mold and topping it with a spoonful of the caper-laced vinaigrette known as ravigote.
Suddenly there's a crisis: The food is ready but the waiters are still seating the guests. Since the tartare can't sit even for a few minutes, Ripert begins to freak out. Fortunately, the quick-thinking Vongerichten seizes the day and announces that we—the two chefs, two sous-chefs, and me—should start carrying the dishes out. As each of the other four men grabs five or six dishes, I take two—there's no way I can handle any more than that.
That crisis resolved, we immediately cover the long tables with another 120 plates and begin doling out slices of Keller's foie gras terrine and garnish. Foie gras is so delicate that it begins to melt if you touch it with your warm finger, so you must slide it onto the plate with a fingernail. Like the mackerel tartare this cannot wait, but now the waiters are ready. Everyone–this includes Ripert and Keller, now done for the night–breathes a sigh of relief and moves over to the stove where chef Jean Joho is working.
Joho's Everest Room is probably the best restaurant in Chicago, featuring his assertively personal but distinctively Alsatian style. He's serving lobster with an intensely flavored meat, red wine, and marrow sauce–an unusual combination to say the least–on a bed of cabbage braised with bacon; it amounts to the most complex peasant food imaginable. Unfortunately, with its "garnish" of shallots braised in red wine, this dish is not easy to assemble.
The action becomes furious. There are two cooks working on each stage of Joho's dish: plating the cabbage, adding the roasted lobster, saucing the dish, garnishing it and, at the end of the line, Joho and…me (!), making sure that each plate is properly assembled and that no stray drops of sauce land where they should not. At this moment, it feels like the most important job in the world.
Boulud's magnificent dish—squab stuffed with foie gras, porcini, pig's foot, and truffles, with a "garnish" of shallots, porcini, squab liver, truffles, and a touch of garlic—follows the same pattern, and, again, I find myself in the position of quality assurance.
At this point I have evidently gained some trust, so for Vongerichten's elegant lamb loin dusted with black trumpet mushrooms on a bed of leek puree—a gorgeous combination of red, black, and green—I am given the job of "working the line." This means searing each lamb loin, transferring it to the oven as it browns, and keeping an eye on it, while seasoning the garlic-scented meat sauce and heating the leek puree. I work with Vongerichten's sous-chef Chris Beischer, while the chef himself explains the assembly of the dish to the waiting troops. Beischer, of course, is accustomed to moving searingly hot saute pans in and out of 700 degree ovens; I am not, and burn myself twice—once while rescuing the leek puree from scorching, another while frantically grabbing a pan to remove it from the oven while the lamb is still rare. In the heat of battle there is no time to dress wounds, so I do my best to ignore both.
When the lamb is done, Beischer and Vongerichten turn to slicing it and I am directed to the head of the serving line. Here, I am given the all-important job of saucing each dish, then sprinkling it with a tiny bit of fleur de sel—$50 a pound sea salt from France. (And, since you asked, yes—it is worth it.) Halfway through the service, the chef comes around the counter to check on the amount of salt I'm using. It makes me nervous; too little, and he considers the dish underseasoned. Too much, and the customers might begin to gag. Evidently he approves, because he gives me a smile and a pat on the shoulder. It's all been worth it.
Technical wizard Richard needs no help; his team has been working steadily since early afternoon, and their plates, pastry balls and all, are ready to go. So as the last of Vongerichten's lamb is being cleared, I wander out into the dining room to ask a fellow journalist how the meal was from the diner's perspective.
He looks glazed, dumbfounded, starstruck. He sighs and says, "You guys did a great job." Us guys. I love it.


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Hidden cameras show alleged cruelty at Quebec veal farm
MONTREAL — An animal rights group has released hidden-camera video of what its says are calves in chains being beaten, punched and kicked at a factory farm in Quebec.
The video is the second one released by the group Mercy For Animals Canada in the past week. The same group released images that apparently showed live chicks being ground up at a Hanover, Ont., processing plant.
The group said the video of the calves was filmed at a Delimax Veal-affiliated factory farm in Pont-Rouge, Que.
The images show calves being crammed into feces-covered wooden boxes where they were chained by their necks, unable to sit or lie down. The videos also show workers appearing to kick and punch the young animals. Some animals appear to be stuck in the wooden slats in their crates.
The group said sick and hurt calves were not medically treated.
Warning: Video may be disturbing to some viewers
Andre Blais, the head of development and commercialization for Delimax, said his company does not own the farm.
"They're not our animals. The people who raise them don't work for us," Blais told QMI Agency. "They are a client, and we sell their services."
In a statement Monday, the group called on the Retail Council of Canada to "implement a new policy that prohibits the cruel confinement of calves in restrictive veal crates in its member grocers' supply chains."
The Canadian Meat Council was not immediately available for comment.
Mercy For Animals Canada has submitted a legal complaint to the Montreal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
— with files from Anne Caroline Desplanques


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Definitions of mole
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n. - A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself. 2
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True to its name, The Complete Guide to Pitching is packed with
guidance and instruction on every aspect of pitching. In this book and
DVD package, renowned pitching coach Derek Johnson shares his secrets on
mechanics, pitch selection, arm care and conditioning, fielding, and
mental strategies for dominating the opposition.
Derek Johnson, named college baseball's National Pitching Coach
of the Year in 2004 and National Assistant Coach of the Year in 2010, is
widely considered one of the top pitching coaches in the country. In
October 2012, he accepted a position with the Chicago Cubs as their
minor league pitching coordinator. Before his appointment with the Cubs,
he spent 11 years as pitching coach at Vanderbilt, three as associate
head coach. While at Vanderbilt, four of his last five staffs led the
Southeastern Conference in earned-run average (ERA). His staffs were
also ranked nationally at number 15 (2003), 7 (2004), 17 (2005), and 13
(2007). More than 25 of Johnson's past pitchers have been drafted.
Under Johnson's tutelage, Vanderbilt participated in the College World
Series in 2011, led by eight players who would later be selected in the
Major League Baseball draft, including first-round picks Sonny Gray and
Grayson Gravin. The 2011 pitching team led the Southeastern Conference
in ERAs and strikeouts. In 2010, the Commodores allowed the fewest home
runs in the league, led by Sonny Gray, who was named Baseball
America's Summer League Player of the Year (the Commodores'
third win in five years). For his efforts with this team, Johnson was
named the ABCA/Baseball America Assistant Coach of the Year.
Johnson's 2007 crew led the SEC in eight statistical categories,
including ERA (3.55), strikeouts (632), opponents' batting average
(.238), complete games (7), and runs allowed (266). Vanderbilt hurlers
also threw a school record 606.2 innings in 67 games with 13 saves. Six
pitchers from that 2007 staff were drafted and signed into the
professional ranks, led by number-one overall pick David Price (Tampa
Bay Devil Rays) and the eighth overall pick, Casey Weathers (Colorado
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